100 Favorite Books--I'm up to 72!

(Note to self: next time, use Excel so that you can see right away if you're repeating yourself!! :-))  ***I've decided to put asterisks by the ones for adults.

A friend commented recently that he'd enjoy seeing a list of my 100 favorite books. Challenge accepted! So far, I've been able to name 60. Thank goodness I don't have to prioritize them... Here's what I have so far; it's a lot harder than I anticipated. I don't want to just list books I remember reading and liking--I want ones that matter, or that bring back the best memories, or that I never wanted to end.

1. The Bean Trees--Kingsolver ***
2. To Kill A Mockingbird--Lee
3. A Wrinkle in Time--L'Engle
4. Bud, not Buddy--Curtis
5. The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963--Curtis
6. The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder--Wells ***
7. Unwind, Unwholly, Unsouled (and probably Undivided when it finally comes out!)--Shusterman
8. The Accidental Tourist (Tyler) ***
9. Breathing Lessons-(Tyler) ***
10. Tangerine--Edward Bloor
11. The Prince of Tides--Pat Conroy ***
12. The Book Thief--Zusak
13. Island of the Blue Dolphins--O'Dell
14. The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew--Sidney
15. The Cay--Taylor
16. The Boxcar Children--Warren
17. Travels With Charley --Steinbeck
18. Little Women--Alcott
19. Eight Cousins--Alcott
20. Kinsey Millhone collection--Grafton ***
21. Scarpetta collection--Cornwell ***
22. Stephanie Plum collection--Evanovich ***
23. The Secret Life of Bees--Kidd ***
24. The Language of Flowers--Diffenbaugh ***
25. The Hunger Games trilogy--Collins
26. Make Lemonade trilogy--Wolff
27. Harry Potter, especially #1 & 7--Rowling
28. Witness--Hesse
29. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate--Kelly
30. Bittersweet--Spencer ***
31. Waiting to Exhale--McMillan ***
32. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day--Cleage ***
33. Hattie Big Sky--Larson
34. A Light in the Attic--Silverstein
35. Where the Sidewalk Ends--Silverstein
36. That Quail, Robert!--Stanger
37. The Great Gilly Hopkins--Patersen
38. Long Way from Chicago--Peck
39. The Mitford Series--Karon
40. A Time to Kill--Grisham ***
41. Tom Sawyer--Twain
42. The Green Mile--King ***
43. Bingo--Brown ***
44. The Napping House--Wood
45. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day--Viorst
46. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--Taylor
47. All Creatures Great and Small--Herriot
48. Cannery Row--Steinbeck
49. Will Grayson-Will Grayson--Green & Levithan
50. Charlotte's Web--White
51. The BFG--Dahl
52. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe--Lewis
53. Far From the Madding Crowd--Hardy
54. Christy--Marshall
55. The Poisonwood Bible--Kingsolver ***
56. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes--Crutcher
57. Whale Song--Crutcher
58. The poetry book Grandma gave me when I was 5
59. The Joy of Cooking
60. Betty Crocker Cookbook

          61.   Anne of Green Gables--Montgomery 

           62.  Becoming Naomi Leon-Ryan

           63.  Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten--Fulghum

           64.  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Archambault, Martin, & Ehlert)

           65.  Skinjacker Trilogy (Everlost, Everwild, Everfound)--Shusterman

           66.  Bruiser--Shusterman

           67.  The Phantom Tollbooth--Juster & Feiffer

           68.  The Search for Delicious--Babbitt

           69.  Tuck Everlasting--Babbitt

           70.  Rascal--North

           71.  Any Small Goodness--Johnston
         72. The Anna Papers--Gilchrist ***